Background

Dr. Harvery Brooks is Benjamin Pierce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus, in the Kennedy School of Government and Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, in the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University. Brooks was born in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from Yale University, did graduate physics at Cambridge University, England, and at Harvard University, receiving his PhD in physics from Harvard with J.H. Van Vleck in 1940. He was ... a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard from 1940 to 1942, and a staff member of the Harvard Underwater Sound Laboratory from 1941 to 1945. He joined General Electric in 1946 where he served as Associate Head of the Knolls Atomic Power Lab. He returned to Harvard in 1950 as Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics. From 1957 to 1975 he served as Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics at Harvard. Brooks' research has been in the fields of solid state physics, nuclear engineering, underwater acoustics and, more recently, science and public policy. Besides numerous technical articles in the three scientific fields, he has published a book, The Government of Science (Mit Press, 1968) and numerous articles in the field of science policy. In 1957 he founded the international Journal of the Physics and Chemistry of Solids, of which he remained Editor-in-Chief until the mid-70's. Since 1975 he has devoted most of his teaching and research effort to the field of science, technology and public policy, in the Kennedy School of Government. From 1968 to 1972 he was chairman of the University-wide faculty committee for the IBM- funded Program on Technology and Society. Brooks has served on many committees related to science policy. He chaired the Undersea Warfare Committee of the National Research Council in the 1950's and was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) with the United State Atomic Energy Commission during that period. From 1959 to 1964 he served as a member of the President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) in the Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson administrations. He continued as a consultant-at-large to the Committee until its abolition by President Nixon in 1973. He was a member of the National Science Board from 1962 through 1974. He served as chairman of the Committee on Science and Public Policy (COSPUP) of the National Academy of Sciences from 1966 to 1971, and Chairman of the Commission on Sociotechnical Systems of the National Research Council from 1975 to 1979. He has been a frequent consultant to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), and on science and technology policy to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and to UNESCO. From 1972 to 1977 he was a member of the Joint US-USSR Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the United States Committee for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. Brooks is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and a Senior Member of the Institute of Medicine. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society and a member and former president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) from 1958 to 1986. He is a former trustee, and now honorary trustee, of Case Western Reserve University, and of Tufts University. He is a former member of the Governing Board of the International Institute for Insect Physiology and Ecology (I.C.I.P.E.) in Nairobi, Kenya, a former member of the board of directors of the Environmental Law Institute, and currently a member of its Advisory Council. He was a trustee of the German Marshall Fund of the United States from 1972 to 1986, and was the first Chairman of Board of the Fund from 1972 to 1978. He is a current Director of the Council on Library Resources, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Raytheon Company from 1965 to 1993. He is a member of the Board of Overseers for the College of Engineering at Tufts University. Most recently Brooks has been a member of several committees of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) dealing with issues of technology in relation to U.S. competitiveness in the world economy. He cochaired with Dr. John Foster the Committee on Technology Policy Options in a Global Economy of the National Academy of Engineering, whose report "Mastering a New Role: Shaping Technology Policy for National Economic Performance" was released in March, 1993. He is also involved in a research program at the Kennedy School of Government dealing with the recasting of national technology policy and is the author of numerous publications on global environmental policy and risk analysis. Brooks has received six honorary DSc degrees from Kenyon College, Union College, Yale University, Harvard University, Brown University and the Ohio State University. He is also the 1993 recipient of the Philip Hauge Abelson Prize of the AAAS, and a recipient of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award of the US Atomic Energy Commission in 1957.

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